On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Justin Smith wrote: > > > >What video hardware are you using? I have a Geforce4 using the > >nvidia driver and got used to crashes while starting games. Once the > >game is up however I can't remember that I ever had a crash. It's difficult > >to make a guess how frequently this happens, but since installing the > >UT2004 demo (about a week ago) I had only one crash while starting the > >demo. > >I have no idea how to reproduce these crashes :-(. > > > > > >>time after a fresh install of it), it corrupts the file system in a way > >>that requires one to manually run fsck. The first time I used the > >>America's Army, even the manual fsck couldn't fix the fs corruption: > >>there was a message "unrecoverable softupdates error". I was able to > >>mount the partition, back up my data, rebuild the file system, and > >>restore the data. > > > Good point! I'm using a GEForce 2 card with the Nvidia driver. The only > other time I got crashes like this was when I tried to run > graphic-intensive applications under CURRENT (with debugging code turned > on). So the nvidia driver might be responsible. > > Thank you! (I'll just have to close all the windows when running this...) Did a quick test: I installed AA2 on my system and started it 10 times on 4.9, 10 times on 5.2. On 5.2 it would start successfully all 10 times, but on 4.9 it failed 4 times causing a reboot. Looks like the familiar thing I see with other games as well but definitely with a higher probability of failing. Some things are different on my installations: 4.9: linux_base 8, Nvidia AGP 5.2: linux_base 7, FreeBSD AGP and probably more things, but my suspicion is that the difference in AGP setup might cause the trouble. Setting up AGP though is a sort of black magic: just try and see if it does not crash is the usual way... :-(. Karel.Received on Sun Feb 22 2004 - 11:27:27 UTC
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